Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.