It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.