The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

It is defeat which educates us.

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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