A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Life is a school of probability.

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

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.