There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.