I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.