You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.