"Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance."
English writer and civil servant who served as Clerk of the Privy Council. He wrote essays and dialogues on ethics, social questions, and governance and was an early advocate for animal welfare. He died in 1875.