Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Politics is but a narrow field.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

As for health, consider yourself well.