As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Never complain and never explain.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.