A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

I am a part and parcel of God.

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.