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

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

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

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.