Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.