Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.