You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.

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

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

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

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.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

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