The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.