What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.