Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.