Joys Divided Are Increased.

There Is No Truth Which Personal Vice Will Not Distort.

Cost Is The Father And Compensation The Mother Of Progress.

Fiction Is Most Powerful When It Contains Most Truth; And There Is Little Truth We Get So True As That Which We Find In Fiction.

Doubtless The World Is Wicked Enough; But It Will Not Be Improved By The Extension Of A Spirit Which Self-righteously Sees More To Reform Outside Of Itself Than In Itself.

It Is Better To Be A Self-made Man,--filled Up According To God's Original Pattern,--than To Be Half A Man, Made After Some Other Man's Pattern.