By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

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

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.