It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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

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.

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.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Life is a school of probability.