Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.