Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Truth is the summit of being.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.