There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.