A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.