It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.