A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.