Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.