We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.