“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despite, or, at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

“The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations”

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.