Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

The best of life is conversation.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.