The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Our best history is still poetry.