Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.