No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.