Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.