Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

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.

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

Life's not fair, get over it!

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.