You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.