Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.