[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

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

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.