Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.