Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.