The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.