Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

Genius is its own end.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.