Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.