In wildness is the preservation of the world.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.