Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.