The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

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

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?