Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.