Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than ...
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
