War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.