Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.