I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
Europe is a state with several provinces
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.