Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Travel teaches toleration.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.