A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.