Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.