The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.