Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

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.