Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

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

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.