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Art must not serve might.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!