I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.