He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.