A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.