Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

Rome is an astonishment!

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?