One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.