While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.