There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.