Labor is God's education.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.