In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.