Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.