We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.