In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power