Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.