For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

Isolation must precede true society.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.