To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.