God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".

It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.