To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.