As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.