Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.