Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.