Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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

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

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

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.