Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.