Silence is more eloquent than words.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.