The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.