An Influential Member Of Parliament Has Not

The Essence Of Toryism Is Enjoyment?but As Far As Communicating And Establishing Your Creed Are Concernedtrya Little Pleasure. The Way To Keep Up Old Customs Is, To Enjoy Old Customs; The Way To Be Satisfied With The Present State Of Things Is, To Enjoy That State Of Things.

An Inability To Stay Quiet Is One Of The Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

Royalty Is A Government In Which The Attention Of The Nation Is Concentrated On One Person Doing Interesting Actions.

A Great Pleasure In Life Is Doing What People Say You Cannot Do.

All The Inducements Of Early Society Tend To Foster Immediate Action; All Its Penalties Fall On The Man Who Pauses; The Traditional Wisdom Of Those Times Was Never Weary Of Inculcating That "delays Are Dangerous," And That The Sluggish Man The Man "who Roasteth Not That Which He Took In Hunting" Will Not Prosper On The Earth, And Indeed Will Very Soon Perish Out Of It. And In Consequence An Inability To Stay Quiet, An Irritable Desire To Act Directly, Is One Of The Most Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.