A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.