Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.