Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?