What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.