Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

Every Syllable That Can Be Struck Out Is Pure Profit, And Every Page That Can Be Economised Is A Five-per-cent Dividend. Nature Rebels Against This Rule; The Flesh Is Weak, And Shrinks From The Scissors; I Groan In Retrospect Over The Weak.

Charles Sumner's Mind Had Reached The Calm Of Water Which Receives And Reflects Images Without Absorbing Them; It Contains Nothing But Itself.

Nothing In Education Is So Astonishing As The Amount Of Ignorance It Accumulates In The Form Of Inert Facts.

[p]hilosophy . . .consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems.

The Historian Must Not Try To Know What Is Truth, If He Values His Honesty; For If He Cares For His Truths, He Is Certain To Falsify His Facts.