It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.