A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
Will is wish, and liberty is power.