But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.