One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.