The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
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.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.