A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

You cannot see the mountain near.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?