To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.