Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.