Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

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

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.