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"...men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life."

"A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom."

"A little thought is sexton to all the world."

"A living dog is better than a dead lion."

"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."

"A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."

"A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view."