Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.