In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.