Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

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

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.