Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.