It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

People naturally despise a dependant.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.