This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.