All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.