The pest of society is egotists.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.