Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.