A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.