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

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

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

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

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.

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.