It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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.

What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

I accept any challenge.

I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.