The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.