The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

The less government we have the better.

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.