There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Be an opener of doors

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.