The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.