 A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| We must not let daylight in upon the magic. |
| What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. |
| The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Topics: Life |
| The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. |
| Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. |
| The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. |
| The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. |
| An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. |
| An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. |
| I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. |
| Woman absent is woman dead. |
| A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. |
| Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. |
| The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. |
| 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. |
| It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. |
| Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. |
| The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. |
| 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. |
