What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.