The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

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.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.