The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

We live ruins amid ruins.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.