A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.