It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.