Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

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

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.