Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?