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.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
All great peoples are conservative.
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.