There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.