Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

Pride ruined the angels.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.