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

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.

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.

It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one.

I am very happy with all my friends and co-workers, because if they don’t remember me in their happy times or in their success. However, they never forget me if they are in a problem or need my help…

We cried. The bones and dust of our fathers cried with us.

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.

I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

I think it's fun to love-to-hate people.