As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.