If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.