The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.