It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.