The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.