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

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.