The end of government is the happiness of the people.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.