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.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.