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

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

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

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

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.