Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.