The frivolous work of polished idleness

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Disciplined inaction.

There is no reason why a woman should not receive the same pay for the same work as a man. To argue otherwise is to argue against justice.

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.