The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.