Education is preparation to live completely.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.