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.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.