One Cannot Make Men Good By Act

The Most Intellectual Of Men Are Moved Quite As Much By The Circumstances Which They Are Used To As By Their Own Will. The Active Voluntary Part Of A Man Is Very Small, And If It Were Not Economized By A Sleepy Kind Of Habit, Its Results Would Be Null.

The Characteristic Merit Of The English Constitutions Is, That Its Dignified Parts Are Very Complicated And Somewhat Imposing, Very Old And Rather Venerable, While Its Efficient Part, At Least When In Great And Critical Action, Is Decidedly Simple And Modern.

Business Is Really More Agreeable Than Pleasure; It Interests The Whole Mind, The Aggregate Nature Of Man More Continuously, And More Deeply. But It Does Not Look As If It Did.

Persecution In Intellectual Countries Produces A Superficial Conformity, But Also Underneath An Intense, Incessant, Implacable Doubt.

Money Is Economic Power.