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 machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.