Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Reality tastes like ashes

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.