Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

I honor health as the first Muse.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.