There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.