The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

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.

See! This our fathers did for us.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.