As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.