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

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.