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

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

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.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.