If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Gad! she’d better!

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Man is a tool-using animal … Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The everlasting No.

Captains of industry.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.

The Dismal Science.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.