Faith is necessary to victory.
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.