By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.