This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.