We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.