The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!