I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.