Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul