A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

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