Look out! Behind you!

The order of things consents to virtue.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.