The years teach much which the days never know.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

One must be an inventor to read well.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.