Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Business first, then pleasure.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.