I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

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