Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.