I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.