The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little