There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

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

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.