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

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

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.