For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

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

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself