“He who hates vice hates men.”
“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”
“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”
“Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.”
“The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.”
“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
“Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.”
“They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.”
“They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.”