In The Faculty Of Writing

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.

The Reason Why So Few Good Books Are Written Is That So Few People Who Can Write Know Anything.

Nations Touch At Their Summits.

Nine Tenths Of Modern Science Is In This Respect The Same: It Is The Produce Of Men Whom Their Contemporaries Thought Dreamers - Who Were Laughed At For Caring For What Did Not Concern Them - Who, As The Proverb Went, 'walked Into A Well From Looking At The Stars' - Who Were Believed To Be Useless, If Anyone Could Be Such.

Public Opinion Is A Permeating Influence, And It Exacts Obedience To Itself; It Requires Us To Drink Other Men's Thoughts, To Speak Other Men's Words, To Follow Other Men's Habits.