It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.