Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.