Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.