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

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

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.