We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.