The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

The temple of art is built in words.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.