O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
New York is a sucked orange.
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
The city is recruited from the country.
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
The dice of God are always loaded.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.