Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.