How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.