No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.