The magic of property turns sand to gold.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.