The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.