People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.