The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.