Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

No man can help another without helping himself.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.