Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.