Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.