Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

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.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.