Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in w….

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them..

We must not let daylight in upon the magic..

The real essence of work is concentrated energy..

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.….

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

Money is economic power..

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

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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

Life is a school of probability..

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

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

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

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

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….