Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.