Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

A living thing is born.