There are some men above grief and some men below it.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.