I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
History is the new poetry.
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.