A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.

If you cannot find a reason to be grateful for today, be grateful for you have the sky.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

Please Mr. Trump: Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others