I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.