Immitation is suicide.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.