A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The force of character is cumulative.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.