The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

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.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.