Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.