The years teach much which the days never know.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.