Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.