I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

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.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.