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" The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. "

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" Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. "

" Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. "

" There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. "

" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "

" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

" Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. "

" It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. "

" One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. "

" Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. "

" Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. "

" Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. "

" Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. "

" An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. "

" Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. "

" All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. "

" There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "

" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "

" Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. "

" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "

" Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. "

" Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

" It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. "

" Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. "

" All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. "

" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "

" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "

" The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. "

" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "