Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.