A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.