When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.