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

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.