Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.