As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.