Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

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

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.