No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

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