[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it….

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life..

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same..

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable….

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass..

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing..

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything..

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong..

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, ….

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is ….

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle..

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts..

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the charac….

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it..

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside..

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man..