Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.