The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.