I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Trees indeed have hearts.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.