It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

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

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.