Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

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

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

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

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