If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

This is no time to be making new enemies.