Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.