It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Every advantage has its tax.