Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.