A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

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.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.