The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.