It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

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

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.