Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.