To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

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.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.

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

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.