Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.