Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.