The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature