Man is a tool-using animal.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.