Blame is safer than praise

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Children are all foreigners.