Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.