I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.