There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

A day is a miniature eternity.