A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

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.

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.

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

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Life is a school of probability.

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.

Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP

I'm not perfect, I'm beautifully imperfect

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.