When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

New York is a sucked orange.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.