It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.