Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Life is a school of probability

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success

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

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up

The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions