In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

The tree is but a huge boquet.