"In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it."

"The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle."

"From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in S…"

"The sword is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of Allah, a night spent in arms, is of mor…"

"This work is not for the many; but in the unconscious, perfectly natural, irony of self-delusion, in all parts intell…"

"Galt was the first writer to show the effects of the burgeoning industrial revolution, making him the first political…"

"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"

"We like to think we're free in the ; that we're beyond the forces of advertising and social manipulation by market fo…"

"Communal living: Plato recommended it, 19th-century religious separatists tried it, anarchists and hippies spectacula…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"