English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.