Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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

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

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.