Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.