Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

Faith is necessary to victory.