Life is to be entered upon with courage.

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.