The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.