Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.