My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

Earth laughs in flowers.