“I see that you are indifferent about money, which is a characteristic rather of those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit which is common to them and all men. And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk about nothing but the praises of wealth.” Republic

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. The Critic as Artist

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Hard Times

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” Leo Africanus