But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in….

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum..

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered..

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and….

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends….

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generati….

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books..

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride..

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city..

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimate….

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it..

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that o….

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society c….

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this..

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men….

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a plea….

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any ho….

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanit….

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the cir….

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race..