A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.