The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

A little integrity is better than any career.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Make youself necessary to someone.