Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

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

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

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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

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

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

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.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Count your blessings. Millions of people would love to trade their problems for yours.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.