A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.