Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for