Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

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

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

The great soul of this world is just.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.