Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.