Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.