The present is never a happy state to any human being.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.