A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.