Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.