The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

The last act crowns the play.

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

See! This our fathers did for us.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.