If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.