It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

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.

The path to greatness begins with your willingness to take small steps.

I define sexy as a real salt-of-the-earth woman who knows who she is, who feels strong and powerful.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.