Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.