Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

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

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!