There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.