That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.