The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.