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

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.

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.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

If you have a fight work it out, don't get out

I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?

In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.