"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and firing of the idea of the beautiful into us."

"I would rather be a corn-stalk in the field than a man in society."

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

"I do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which I have not joined."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."