All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Life is our dictionary.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Children are all foreigners.