There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.