For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.