Nature hates calculators.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.