I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.