New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.