For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

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.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.