Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

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

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.

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.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.