I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.