The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

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.

One does what one is

I’m not afraid of death, just of dying.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.

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