The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The expected always happens

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.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.