I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

States are great engines moving slowly.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.