An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.