Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.