It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.