The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.