There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.