The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.