We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.