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

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

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.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

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

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

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.