"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."

"Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others."

"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."