Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

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

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 worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

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

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

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.