If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

You are not on a journey to God

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty