Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

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.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.