Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

America is another name for opportunity.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.