We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

I like people who can do things

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.