From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.