I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.