Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.