Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

All scoundrelism is summed up in the phrase “Que Messieurs les Assassins commencent!”

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.