Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

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.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.