One idea lights a thousand candles.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.