Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

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.

The greatest joy you can get is from giving, and the best thing that you can give is your love.

Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

I just wanted somebody to tell me that I could sing.