Писатели, как и зубы, бывают передними и коренными.
Парламент — всего лишь большое собрание более или менее ленивых людей.
Хорошо не иметь пороков, но плохо не подвергаться искушениям.
Самая большая ошибка — пытаться быть приятнее, чем ты есть.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor… Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step.
But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
Нации соприкасаются своими вершинами.