Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.