The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

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

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

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

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.

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.