Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.