Men Cannot Not Live By Exchanging Articles,

The Principle Of All Successful Effort Is To Try To Do Not What Is Absolutely The Best, But What Is Easily Within Our Power, And Suited For Our Temperament And Condition.

Imperfection Is In Some Sort Essential To All That We Know Of Life. It Is The Sign Of Life In A Mortal Body, That Is To Say, Of A State Of Progress And Change. Nothing That Lives Is, Or Can Be Rigidly Perfect; Part Of It Is Decaying, Part Nascent.

That Which Seems To Be Wealth May In Verity Be Only The Gilded Index Of Far Reaching Ruin

That Country Is The Richest Which Nourishes The Greatest Number Of Noble And Happy Human Beings.

Drawing Is A Means Of Obtaining And Communicating Knowledge