You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.