The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"