In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

Those who work much do not work hard.

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.