Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

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.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.