The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.