No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.