The Smallness Of Our Desires May Contribute

Poverty Is, Except Where There Is An Actual Want Of Food And Raiment, A Thing Much More Imaginary Than Real. The Shame Of Poverty--the Shame Of Being Thought Poor--it Is A Great And Fatal Weakness, Though Arising In This Country, From The Fashion Of The Times Themselves.

Good Government Is Known From Bad Government By This Infallible Test: That Under The Former The Labouring People Are Well Fed And Well Clothed, And Under The Latter, They Are Badly Fed And Badly Clothed.

Learning Consists Of Ideas, And Not Of The Noise That Is Made By The Mouth.

Happiness, Or Misery, Is In The Mind. It Is The Mind That Lives.

I Cannot... Perceive Any Ground For Hoping That Any Practical Good Would, While The Funding System Exists In Its Present Extent, Result From The Adoption Of Any Of Those Projects, Which Have Professed To Have In View What Is Called Parliamentary Reform... When The Funding System, From Whatever Cause, Shall Cease To Operate Upon Civil And Political Liberty, There Will Be No Need Of Projects For Parliamentary Reform. The Parliament Will, As Far As Shall Be Necessary, Then Reform Itself.