What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

I want you to put more life into your dying.

Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.