Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A government of laws, and not of men.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.