Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.