As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.