A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.