The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

Whatever interests is interesting.

Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.