Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

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."

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

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