You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor..

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness..

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind..

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea..

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words….

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus ….

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do..

Money is economic power..

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault..

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't..

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do..

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation..

All people are most credulous when they are most happy..

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.….

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

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind..

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..

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone..

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do..

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, ha….

Life is a school of probability..