Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.