It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.