We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.