It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to 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.