In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies — Sacredness

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

"God is for man the commonplace book where he registers his highest feelings and thoughts, the genealogical album into which he enters the names of the things most dear and sacred to him."

"If you cant spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between the sacred and profane, youll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything."

"It is likely … that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves."

"Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee."