There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.

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.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

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

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.