Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.