A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.