Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.