Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. - William Winwood Reade

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies rather than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents.

Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.