Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.