If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Money often costs too much.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.