All things are known to the soul.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.