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

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

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

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.