Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.