[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.