The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.