Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.