To genius life never grows commonplace.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.