Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature