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

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.

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

There's no place like home...

the people who mostly get angry on you mostly love you

Autumn arrived and life was in danger of becoming boring again.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.