We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.