When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.