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

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

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.

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.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.