Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.