Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.