Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.