Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.