The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

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

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.