Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor…

Quote by Lord Melbourne

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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the...

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the...

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through...

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through...

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take...

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take...

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me...

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me...