A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.