There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.