A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.