I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.