Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.