My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.