To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.