Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

We never touch but at points.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.