The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Do your work, but do your thing.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.