Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

Power educates the potentate.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.