If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.