If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.