If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.