As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.