Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.