One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

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.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.