Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.