We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.