I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

Be an opener of doors