Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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

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.

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.