For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Renew thyself completely each day.

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.