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

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

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.