"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in …"

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character …"

"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen the world, and I have found it good.'"