Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.