Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.