Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

We can only obey our own polarity.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.