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

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

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

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

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

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

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.