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

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.