People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Life is our dictionary.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?