I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.