Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.