I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them and that is the Christian religion.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which are everything in this world.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire are procured by labour and they may be multiplied not in one country alone but in many almost without any assignable limit if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.