I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

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.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?