I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

The world belongs to the energetic.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.