Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

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

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 greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.