Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.