If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

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.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

The eye is the best of artists.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.