The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.