No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

After darkness comes the light.

That evil can never be great which is the last.

No evil is great if it is the last.

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

Peace is obtained by war.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!

The secret to gaining the whole world is to keep your soul.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded