We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

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.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

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

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

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