The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.