“Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.”

“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”

“A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.”

“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”