“The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.”

“The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.”

“The new earth will be like Eden... the deserts will gush with water. … A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.”

“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”

“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”

“Not only has capitalism failed to bring us to the brink of a scarcity-free world, but in a sense, you could say that capitalism invented scarcity - at least as a deliberate method of economic organization…. The flipside of this bounty, this endless feast, is scarcity.”

“But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.”

“I have often thought, if it was not for this Tyranny which Custom usurps over us, that Men of any tolerable Good-nature could never be reconcil'd to the killing of so many Animals for their daily Food, as long as the bountiful Earth so plentifully provides them with Varieties of vegetable Dainties.”

“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.”

“These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth—a nightmare of meaningless without end. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Outwardness lost, at last, its imagined attractions.
Only inwardness remained to be explored.
Only the human soul remained terra incognita.
This was the beginning of goodness and wisdom.”