Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!