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

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

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

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

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

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.