Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.