Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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