America means opportunity, freedom, power.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.