“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square
“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it
“All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors
“Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.