No man can have society upon his own terms.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.