All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Biography is the only true history.