Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.