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

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.