To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.