The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.