Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.