As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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.

If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.