Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.