Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.