Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

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

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

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

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.