Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.