A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

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

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

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.