Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

Live in the sunshine.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.