Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.