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

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.