Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

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

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