Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

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.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

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.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.