The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.