I am become a transparent eyeball.

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

When it's dark enough men see stars.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

A great man is always willing to be little.