And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.