The Greatest Mistake Is Trying To Be

In Every Particular State Of The World, Those Nations Which Are Strongest Tend To Prevail Over The Others; And In Certain Marked Peculiarities The Strongest Tend To Be The Best.

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 Cure For Admiring The House Of Lords Is To Go And Look At It.

No Real English Gentleman, In His Secret Soul, Was Ever Sorry For The Death Of A Political Economist.

An Inability To Stay Quiet Is One Of The Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.