The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.