That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.