Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Syllables govern the world.

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.