Invention breeds invention.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.