The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.