A collection of books is the best of all universities.

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.