The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

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.