Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.