Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Earth laughs in flowers.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

In imitation is a bit suicide.