On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

It is never too late to do right.