Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Every advantage has its tax.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"