"It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."

"Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us—something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

"A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."

"It was a melancholy day for human nature when that stupid Lord Anson, after beating about for three years, found himself again at Greenwich. The circumnavigation of our globe was accomplished, but the…"