I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.