The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.