Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.