Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

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

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

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Thought will not work except in silence.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.