Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.