Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.