Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.