The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

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

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.