In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.