The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

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.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.