The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.