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

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

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

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

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

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

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