The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.