Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.