Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

A man perfects himself by working.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

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

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.