There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.