What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

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