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

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.