Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?