The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

Work first, and then rest.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.