I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.

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.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!