Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.