All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

People only see what they are prepared to see.