Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

To do something is in every man's power.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.