Some will always be above others.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Nature is saturated with Deity.