This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.

How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.