The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.