We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

The less government we have the better.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.