Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.