The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

The first wealth is health.

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.