The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Hitch your wagon to a star.