That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.