An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

My dreams are all follies.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.