Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.