Our expenses are all for conformity.

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

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

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.