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[C]oncessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Thus they toil on in trouble and danger all the days of their life, with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting: their only idea of a holiday is to do what the occasion demands, and to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life. To describe their character in a word, one might truly say that they were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.

self-control contains honour as a chief constituent, and honour bravery.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

[T]he freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.