Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.