Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.