Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.