An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy