They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

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 object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.