The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.