In The Faculty Of Writing Nonsense, Stupidity

The Characteristic Merit Of The English Constitutions Is, That Its Dignified Parts Are Very Complicated And Somewhat Imposing, Very Old And Rather Venerable, While Its Efficient Part, At Least When In Great And Critical Action, Is Decidedly Simple And Modern.

Great And Terrible Systems Of Divinity And Philosophy Lie Round About Us, Which, If True, Might Drive A Wise Man Mad.

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 Being Without An Opinion Is So Painful To Human Nature That Most People Will Leap To A Hasty Opinion Rather Than Undergo It.

The Real Essence Of Work Is Concentrated Energy - People Who Really Have That In A Superior Degree By Nature Are Independent Of The Forms And Habits And Artifices By Which Less Able And Less Active People Are Kept Up To Their Labors.