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

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.