A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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

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

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.