When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.