Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust