Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.