Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.