Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.