You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.