There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.