Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.