The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy