Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.