The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

True wit never made us laugh.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.