Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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?"