It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.