We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

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.