A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

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

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

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

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

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.