The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.