The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

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.

Beauty is a heart with wings.

Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

We live by promises not by explanations.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Next time you want to quit, think who you want to be. Quitters never win.

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

I don't want that to be the headline.