There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred by the accident of birth to both the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggles, the poor are not wrong in believing.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings