The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.