In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.