Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.