Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.