If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.