No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.