Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.