“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.”
“Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,between whose endless jar justice resides,should lose their names, and so should justice too.Then everything includes itself in power,power into will, will into appetite;and appetite, an universal wolf,so doubly seconded with will and power, must make perforce an universal preyand at last eat up himself.”
“Man invents nothing God did not create first.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”