One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.