Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.