An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.